Lehigh Valley chords by Renée Christine

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Intro:

C G D/F# Em

Verse 1:
C            G               D/F#                 Em             C
I might look young, but I've been here since they first laid the tracks
G  D/F#  Em
C               G             D/F#             Em         C
Great Grandpa's ghost dug the mines out and he never came back
G  D/F#  Em
C              G                    D/F#            Em              C
Now they stand around and find some pretty words to put you in your grave
G  D/F#  Em
C                   G                   D/F#          Em              C    G
Oh, sure as they go home at night, they didn't mean a thing that they say
     D/F#  Em
They say           .
      C G   D/F#  Em
And I knoow oo       .

Chorus:
           C                 G
The Lehigh Valley just don't feel like it used to
     D/F#                  Em
With Church Street emptied out
               C                         G
Ever since the devils in the White House gutted this place
          D/F#                      Em
Well, the bullet and the bottle get around
         C   G
They get around
        D/F# Em
They get around
         C   G
They get around
          D/F#
They get around
          Em
They get around
          C      G  D/F#  Em
They get around              .

C G D/F# Em

Verse 2:
C            G               D/F#         Em              C
I still hear voices from the iron furnace sittin' off the road
G  D/F#  Em
C                   G                     D/F#            Em            C
And folks just look harmless, but they'll fool you if you don't already know
G  D/F#  Em
C                  G               D/F#             Em            C
And it happens so slowly you don't know it 'til the day that it's gone
G  D/F#  Em
C            G                  D/F#         Em            C
Crack in the barrel ain't gonna tell you anything was ever wrong
G  D/F#  Em

Chorus:
           C                 G
The Lehigh Valley just don't feel like it used to
     D/F#                  Em
With Church Street emptied out
               C                         G
Ever since the devils in the White House gutted this place
          D/F#                      Em
Well, the bullet and the bottle get around
         C   G
They get around
        D/F# Em
They get around
         C   G
They get around
          D/F#
They get around
          Em
They get around
          C      G  D/F#  Em
They get around                .